Technology area: Chemistry & Materials
4 pending office actions • 2 art units • 4 examiners • 0 of 4 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 3 patents granted in the last 365 days
BYD Precision Manufacture Co. Ltd. has 5 pending office actions in Chemistry & Materials. The matters involve 5 distinct examiners and 3 distinct art units, indicating examiner-level dispersion across a smaller set of technical assignments.
KESSIE, JENNIFER A is the busiest examiner, with 1 pending action. The equal examiner allocation means prosecution management should track each response independently while using art-unit groupings to identify shared technical context.
Difficulty is derived from the rejection statutes on the most recent pending office action. §101-driven and multi-statute cases are graded Hard; §112-only and obviousness-type double-patenting cases are graded Easy; everything else is Medium. "Unknown" means we have not yet parsed a statute for that office action.
| Bucket | Cases |
|---|---|
| §103 only | 1 (25%) |
| §102 only | 1 (25%) |
| §112 only | 1 (25%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 1 (25%) |
How the docket's pending cases split across USPTO tech-center bands.
Manual office-action response work runs about 10 hours per case. The time-saved bands below show what IP Author's prosecution pipeline typically delivers — a conservative 20% on the low end, 35% in the middle, 50% on the high end.
| Examiner | Apps on this docket | Allow rate | Interview lift |
|---|---|---|---|
| KESSIE, JENNIFER A | 1 | 65.2% | +20.2% |
| CULBERT, COURTNEY GUENTHER | 1 | 27.8% | +4.3% |
| NGUYEN, PHU HOANG | 1 | 66.0% | +19.6% |
| GRAY, LINDA LAMEY | 1 | 82.6% | +17.2% |
Cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate of 80%+ where the difficulty is Easy or Medium. The top 1 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18344881 | VAPORIZATION CORE FOR E-CIGARETTE, CARTRIDGE FOR E-CIGARETTE, AND E-CIGARETTE | GRAY, LINDA LAMEY | — |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 1 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18639979 | ATOMIZATION CORE OF E-CIGARETTE AND E-CIGARETTE | CULBERT, COURTNEY GUENTHER | — |
Cases in front of an examiner whose interview lift is 10 percentage points or more — i.e. interviewed cases historically resolve more favorably than non-interviewed ones. The top 3 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18744725 | ATOMIZATION DEVICE FOR ELECTRONIC CIGARETTE AND ELECTRONIC CIGARETTE | KESSIE, JENNIFER A | — |
| 18638674 | E-CIGARETTE ATOMIZATION DEVICE AND E-CIGARETTE | NGUYEN, PHU HOANG | — |
| 18344881 | VAPORIZATION CORE FOR E-CIGARETTE, CARTRIDGE FOR E-CIGARETTE, AND E-CIGARETTE | GRAY, LINDA LAMEY | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 1747 | 3 |
| 1745 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18744725 | ATOMIZATION DEVICE FOR ELECTRONIC CIGARETTE AND ELECTRONIC CIGARETTE | KESSIE, JENNIFER A | 1747 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jun 17, 2024 |
| 18639979 | ATOMIZATION CORE OF E-CIGARETTE AND E-CIGARETTE | CULBERT, COURTNEY GUENTHER | 1747 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Apr 19, 2024 |
| 18638674 | E-CIGARETTE ATOMIZATION DEVICE AND E-CIGARETTE | NGUYEN, PHU HOANG | 1747 | §102 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Apr 18, 2024 |
| 18344881 | VAPORIZATION CORE FOR E-CIGARETTE, CARTRIDGE FOR E-CIGARETTE, AND E-CIGARETTE | GRAY, LINDA LAMEY | 1745 | §112 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Jun 30, 2023 |
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Start Free TrialBYD Precision Manufacture Co. Ltd. has 4 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 2 art units and 4 examiners.
Jennifer A Kessie has the most, with 1 of BYD Precision Manufacture Co. Ltd.'s pending office actions.
Mostly Chemistry & Materials (USPTO Tech Center 1700), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
